High Risk Pregnancy: The Nurse Midwife Roles

Abstract

          The midwifery nurse is a health care provider who has an important role among the caring of high risk pregnant women who face with problems of medical and obstetrical during the period of pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum. Recently, the trend of high risk pregnancy has increasing as gradually such global and Thailand. Complications of high risk pregnancy effect to the physical and psycological of pregnant mother, fetus and newborn. They gain of the rates of mathernal death, still birth, and neonatal death. Therefore, the midwifery nurse should perform their roles for investigaing, screening, assessing, and assitting to diagnose high risk pregnancy through the good quality and effectively of the nurse midwife nursing which aims to support safty pregnancy, reduce the rate of maternal and neonatal mortality, and also fetal and neonatal malbility.